Apple’s next smartphone could be thinner, lighter iPhone Air
Apple has taken to heart the words of Wallis Simpson, who famously said, “You can never be too rich or too thin.” With $159 billion in cash and securities as of Dec. 28, Apple (AAPL) is well known to be living the former. And with its upcoming iPhone 6, Apple is seeing how far it can push the latter. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White said Apple engineers are pushing to make the next model iPhone significantly thinner than the current, already wispy model. White picked up the scuttlebutt while talking with a component supplier on his current China-Taiwan tech tour. “Our research indicates that Apple’s engineering acumen was put to the test with the next iPhone iteration,” White said in a research note Tuesday. “We believe the iPhone 6 (i.e., iPhone Air) will be approximately one-third thinner than the iPhone 5S. Creating an even thinner iPhone has been no easy feat for Apple, resulting in many engineering changes and delays along the way.”